Hitman 2

The data for Hitman 2 with the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 shows a combination that scales predictably with resolution and settings, but with a few notable inflection points. The measured FPS across the three resolutions provides a clear picture of where the bottleneck shifts between the CPU and GPU.

Resolution Scaling

The performance drop from 1080p to 4K is substantial and reveals a system that is heavily GPU-limited at higher resolutions. At High settings, the average frame rate falls from 184.2 FPS at 1920x1080 to 117.9 FPS at 2560x1440, a reduction of 66.3 FPS. Moving to 3840x2160, the average drops further to 60.1 FPS, meaning the 4K result is roughly half of the 1080p figure. This steep decline indicates that the RTX 5080 is the primary constraint as pixel count increases.

The scaling pattern is consistent across all settings. At Low settings, the system delivers 319.7 FPS at 1080p, 203.7 FPS at 1440p, and 111.9 FPS at 4K. This shows a 65% drop from 1080p to 1440p and a further 45% drop from 1440p to 4K. The Ultra preset tells a similar story: 135.9 FPS at 1080p, 86.3 FPS at 1440p, and 44.9 FPS at 4K. The fact that the frame rate nearly halves at each resolution step in all presets confirms that the GPU workload scales almost linearly with pixel count.

Interestingly, the gap between 1080p and 1440p is larger in percentage terms than the gap between 1440p and 4K. For High settings, 1080p to 1440p is a 35.9% reduction, while 1440p to 4K is a 49.0% reduction. This suggests that at 1080p, the CPU still has headroom, but the GPU becomes progressively more dominant as resolution increases. The Ryzen 5 7600X, with its 6 cores and 12 threads, appears capable of feeding the GPU adequately at lower resolutions, but the sheer pixel throughput required at 4K overwhelms the graphics card first.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data shows that the Medium preset provides the most balanced experience across all resolutions. At 1920x1080, Medium delivers 242.9 FPS, which is 58.7 FPS higher than High and 107 FPS higher than Ultra. At 2560x1440, Medium achieves 152 FPS, comfortably above the 144 Hz refresh rate common on modern monitors and 65.7 FPS higher than High. Even at 3840x2160, Medium maintains 83 FPS, which is 22.9 FPS higher than High and 38.1 FPS higher than Ultra.

The Low preset offers the highest frame rates but with diminishing returns at lower resolutions. At 1080p, Low hits 319.7 FPS, which is 76.8 FPS higher than Medium. However, the visual quality sacrifice is likely not worth this margin for most users. At 4K, Low produces 111.9 FPS, which is the only preset that exceeds the 60 FPS threshold at that resolution, but Medium at 83 FPS is still playable.

Ultra is the most demanding preset and shows the system's limits. At 1080p, Ultra still manages 135.9 FPS, which is acceptable, but at 4K it drops to 44.9 FPS, which is below the 60 FPS standard for smooth gameplay. The data suggests that Ultra should only be used at 1080p or 1440p, where it produces 135.9 and 86.3 FPS respectively. For 4K, Medium or High are the only viable options, with High at 60.1 FPS being the bare minimum for a consistent experience.

How This Combo Ranks

In the database of tested combinations, this pairing of the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 ranks 76th out of 1795 combos in Hitman 2. This places it in the top 4.2% of all tested systems, indicating a very strong overall performance tier. The high rank is expected given the RTX 5080's position in the GPU hierarchy, but it also reflects the CPU's ability to keep up.

The CPU itself sits at the 83rd percentile among all processors, with an average benchmark score of 26272. Its nearest rivals include the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U (26262, 0% delta) and the AMD Ryzen 7 7735U (26305, -0.1% delta). These are all extremely close in raw compute performance, showing that the 7600X is well within the performance band of its peers. The GPU, meanwhile, ranks at the 89th percentile among all graphics cards, with an average score of 59188. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Arc A570M (58239, 1.6% delta) and the Intel Arc Pro A60 (60326, -1.9% delta), indicating the 5080 sits in a tight competitive cluster.

Given these individual percentiles, the combo rank of 76th out of 1795 is actually higher than what the component percentiles alone would suggest. This is likely because the game's engine is well-optimized for high-end hardware, and the combination of a strong CPU and exceptionally strong GPU produces a synergistic effect in Hitman 2's specific workload.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system delivers exceptional performance across all settings. Low produces 319.7 FPS, Medium achieves 242.9 FPS, High reaches 184.2 FPS, and Ultra maintains 135.9 FPS. The spread of 183.8 FPS between the lowest and highest presets shows that Hitman 2's settings have a massive impact on frame rate at this resolution. The gap between Low and Medium is 76.8 FPS, while the gap between Medium and High is 58.7 FPS, and between High and Ultra is 48.3 FPS. This suggests that each successive quality tier costs a similar amount of performance.

At 2560x1440, the numbers scale down proportionally. Low delivers 203.7 FPS, Medium achieves 152 FPS, High hits 117.9 FPS, and Ultra drops to 86.3 FPS. The delta between Low and Ultra is 117.4 FPS, which is a smaller absolute difference than at 1080p but a similar percentage reduction. Interestingly, the gap between Medium and High (34.1 FPS) is smaller than the gap between High and Ultra (31.6 FPS), indicating that the Ultra preset is slightly more demanding relative to High at this resolution.

At 3840x2160, the performance envelope narrows considerably. Low produces 111.9 FPS, Medium achieves 83 FPS, High reaches 60.1 FPS, and Ultra falls to 44.9 FPS. The difference between Low and Ultra is 67 FPS, which is the smallest absolute spread across all resolutions. This compression of frame rates at 4K is typical of GPU-limited scenarios, where the graphics card becomes the sole bottleneck and settings adjustments have less relative impact on the final frame rate.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is a Blackwell 2.0 architecture GPU built on a 5 nm process at TSMC. It has 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus, delivering 960.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The chip contains 10752 shading units, 336 texture mapping units, and 112 ROPs, along with 84 ray tracing cores and 336 tensor cores. The base clock is 2295 MHz with a boost clock of 2617 MHz, and the memory runs at 1875 MHz, which translates to 30 Gbps effective.

For Hitman 2, the GPU's raw throughput is the determining factor at higher resolutions. The 960.0 GB/s memory bandwidth is more than sufficient for this game's texture loading, and the 16 GB VRAM capacity is far beyond what Hitman 2 requires, so memory capacity is not a limiting factor in any of the measured results. The FP32 performance of 56.28 TFLOPS provides the compute headroom needed for the game's lighting and shadow calculations, which become more demanding at 4K.

The GPU's role is most evident in the transition from 1440p to 4K. At High settings, the frame rate drops from 117.9 FPS to 60.1 FPS, a 49% reduction that closely tracks the pixel count increase from 3.7 million to 8.3 million pixels. This linear scaling indicates that the RTX 5080 is fully utilized at 4K and that the CPU is no longer a contributing factor. The GPU's 89th percentile ranking among all graphics cards, with an average benchmark score of 59188, confirms its position as a top-tier part that can handle demanding titles like Hitman 2 at high resolutions.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600X is a Zen 4 architecture processor with 6 cores and 12 threads, based on the Raphael codename. It has a base clock of 4.70 GHz and a boost clock of 5.30 GHz, with 64 KB of L1 cache per core, 1 MB of L2 cache per core, and 32 MB of shared L3 cache. The CPU supports DDR5 memory with a dual-channel bus and 83.2 GB/s bandwidth. It is built on a 5 nm process at TSMC with 6,570 million transistors on a 71 mm² die.

In Hitman 2, the CPU's role is most significant at 1080p, where frame rates exceed 300 FPS at Low settings. At these high frame rates, the CPU must deliver draw calls and game logic updates quickly enough to keep the GPU fed. The 7600X's single-thread performance is strong, as evidenced by its 3dmark single-thread score of 1060 and its cinebench r23 single-core score of 3406. These scores place it in the 83rd percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 26272.

The CPU's 6 cores and 12 threads are sufficient for Hitman 2's engine, which is not heavily multithreaded. The 3dmark_8_threads score of 5715 and the 3dmark_max_threads score of 6845 show that the CPU scales reasonably with additional threads, but the game's performance is more dependent on single-core speed. The boost clock of 5.30 GHz provides the high-frequency performance that Hitman 2 benefits from, allowing the system to reach 319.7 FPS at 1080p Low without the CPU becoming a bottleneck.

At 1440p and 4K, the CPU's influence diminishes. The frame rates at these resolutions are primarily determined by the GPU, and the CPU has enough headroom to avoid becoming a limiting factor. The measured data shows that the system scales consistently with resolution, which would not be the case if the CPU were struggling to keep up. The 7600X's performance relative to its nearest rivals, such as the AMD Ryzen 7 5700X (26214, 0.2% delta), confirms that it is a capable and balanced partner for the RTX 5080 in this title.